Celebrating the year's best buildings and spaces.

The A+Awards are bigger than just the architectural community. Entries are judged by more than 400 luminaries from ﬁelds as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real estate development, and tech. Architects shape every space and every place where people spend their lives, so we created the A+Awards to remind the world how important architecture is.

2018 A+Architecture Winners

The A+Awards Book

The World's Best Architecture is an annual compendium of the world's most inspiring architecture, published in partnership with Phaidon. Featuring both Jury and Popular Choice Award winners, it's the definitive guide to the year's best buildings and spaces. See the 2018 book here.

Global Recognition

We're not here to build for other architects, we're here to build for all of humankind.

Bjarke Ingels

With the largest online architecture community on the planet, the A+Awards deliver unprecedented exposure for Winners. Picture your work in front of an audience of 7+ million via Architizer's Journal and social media channels, plus international media coverage in outlets like CNN, Al Jazeera, and the New York Times.

Featured Jury

Beatrice Galilee is a curator, writer, critic, consultant and lecturer of contemporary architecture and design. She is the co-founder and director of The Gopher Hole, an exhibition and event space in London, architectural consultant and writer at DomusWeb, and associate lecturer at Central St Martins University. She is currently the Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Troy Conrad Therrien is the Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the Guggenheim. Initially trained as a computer engineer, and later in architecture design, history, and theory, Therrien has held positions as an architect, creative technologist, innovation consultant, and scholar. His current research focuses on the relationship between architecture, communication technology, and political economy through a curatorial practice that blends traditional exhibitions with experimental forms of programming and research. He regularly lectures, writes, and sits on juries across a diverse spectrum of venues and fields.

Keely is the Director and Founder of Kilograph, a visual communications studio in Los Angeles. Drawing on over 18 years of experience in the fields of architecture, visual effects, and communications, she has built a unique design studio that operates at the intersection of architecture, graphics, and future technologies. Prior to founding Kilograph Colcleugh worked as a designer at OMA and at Bruce Mau Design in Toronto. She has taught visual communications at CalPoly, the University of Kentucky, USC, and most recently at the IUAV in Venice Italy.

Kristian Lars Ahlmark is one of five partners at Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects where he has worked as an architect since graduating in 2001. As a partner, Kristian is responsible for the Øresund region, including Copenhagen, Sweden and Norway. Kristian spearheaded the opening of the Shanghai office in 2011 and has been acting partner responsible for the office and works in the region since.

Beatrice Galilee is a curator, writer, critic, consultant and lecturer of contemporary architecture and design. She is the co-founder and director of The Gopher Hole, an exhibition and event space in London, architectural consultant and writer at DomusWeb, and associate lecturer at Central St Martins University. She is currently the Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The A+Trophy

Our winners deserve a truly remarkable showpiece. That's why we work closely with some of the world's best awards designers to create a bespoke trophy that reflects our winners' outstanding design ethos and achievements.